The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-06
An Immense Army of Them
Invade Washington.
THE FUN THEY ARE HAVING.
The American Turf-Press Comments
-HonO1ing the G. o. M
General Notes.
Invasion of Doctors.


5000 individuals. The work of regis
tration is still in progress and the exact
figures are not yet obtainable. Of these
nine-tenths are Americans. OF the 300
or 400 foreigners present. there are
ford and portly Englishmen, swarthy
Italians, Turks, Persians, blonde Rus
slams, Norwegians and Swedes, with
Frenchmen. Germans, Danes, Mexican
and South Americans in every type of
eminent responsibility. The French
appears to be the favorite tongue for
international communion, but there are
rot a few among the foreigners who
seem to turn without any effort from
Servian to Spanish and from Norwegian
to Greek. Before the hour for opening of
the congress, every seat in Albaugh's
Opera House was occupied. President
Cleveland, Secretary Bayard and
Speaker Carlisle were escorted by DR..
Garrett to seats upon the stage, at IL
clock. and we're greeted with ap-
plause by the audience.
The assemblage was called to order by
Professor Henry NJ. Smith, of Philadel
phia, chairman of the executive COM
present, as well as to the physicians
throughout the world. that in May,
1884, representatives of the profession
in the United States decided to send
fraternal greetings to the Eighth Inter
national Medical Congress, then about
to assemble in the capital of Denmark,
and to ask that the Ninth Medical Con-
gress might meet in the City OF Wash
ington. This invitation being accepted,
an executive committee was appointed
to make the necessary arrangements
and the result of their labors was seen in
this large assembly, which the register
showed contained many of the most
brilliant and distinguished medical
minds of Europe, Asia, and America.
70 welcome these guests of the pro-
fession and to show his interest in the
great humanitarian object, the Presi-
dent of the United States had COZ
sented to open the Congress for organE
cation. He had the honor to announce
the honorable Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States
of America. The President, when
81 feel that the country should be
congratulated to-day upon the presence
at our capital of so many of our own
citizens, and those representing foreign
countries who have distinguished them
selves in the science of medicine and are
devoted to its further progress. Ny
duty on this occasion is very pleasing
and very brief one; it is simply to de-
clare that the Ninth International NJ edi-
cal Congress is now open for
organization and for the transaction of
business.
The chairman of the executive COM
mittee then proceeded to nominate the
gentlemen agreed upon by the commit
tee to be officers of the congress. DR..
Nathan Smith Davis, of Chicago, was
chosen president of the Congress by &C
clamation.
DR.. John B. Hamilton, supervising
surgeon-general of the United States
Marine Hospital Service, having been
elected secretary general of the con-
gresse the nominated gentlemen were
agreed upon as vice-presidents of the
congress, and they were elected by &C
clamation.
The list contains a hundred or more
names of presidents of American medi-
cal associations, and surgeons. general
of the army and navy, The foreigners
on the list include all who came as dele
gates from their respective govern
ments, together with many others of
distinction.
The Secretary read report giving |
detailed account of the manner in !
which the Congress was invited TO |
meet in Washington, and of the labors |
of the committees in the work was now |
complete and he submitted the pro-
gramme and volume of abstracts. DR.. |
A. 7. 2. Garrett, chairman of the COM |
mittee of arrangements, announced the |
social programme for the Congress. 1t |
includes aconversazione in the evening, |
at the pension Office, an informal re-
ception by the President and Mrs.
Cleveland tomorrow, lawn party by
Hon. Josiah Dent, a reception by
Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, a recep-
ton and buffet banquet at the pension
upon United States vessels, and
He said it was a source of regret aad
embarrassment that the month of Sep
TENDER had been selected for the con-
gress, and the committee felt it duty
to explain the absence of that boundless
for which Washington was
so widely known. This was, he said,
due to the absence from the city of SO
many of those who were, at other
seasons, wont to open their doors to
visitors.
President Davis next introduced
Secretary OF State Bayard, who well
coined the congress TO Washington in
on eloquent address, and said, in part:
1--WE welcome this congress as the
guardian of the sanitation of the
nation. In your profession we recog-
nize the noblest school of human
and in the progress of de
of the laws of cure, the
mitiga ton of suffering, proIongation of
human existence and the efforts to dis
cover the true principles and conditions
by which life can be made worth iiv-
Ing, we have learned to appreciate our
ieot to those whose highest reward Is
the still small voice of gratitude and
of benefaction to
the human race. Gentlemen. I confden-
tally promise your convention q worthy
audience, not alone by the members OF
your profession here assembled, nor
i'm ted in number to those whom this ]
building can contain, but that
yaster audience TO whom, upon